Biography
Jeff Harden is a singer, songwriter, media composer, musician, and music teacher. Most importantly, however, he is the loving husband of Eva, his high school sweetheart, now married 27 years.
Jeff and Eva have 3 adult boys, Josiah, Liam, and Eli. They live in the picturesque northern town of Smithers, British Columbia.
In his early years as a young boy, Jeff has always had a great ear for singing, finding harmony parts, singing regularly on stage with his father, Tim Harden, who was the tenor singer for the well-known Canadian Southern Gospel Quartet, The Watchmen, for over 57 years before passing away in 2022.
He became an integral member of the prestigious Cambridge Kiwanis Boys Choir, where at the age of 11 he traveled around Canada and Europe. He also started classical piano lessons with the Royal Conservatory of Music at age 6, taking that particular training through college to his Grade 10 RCM)
At the age of 12, he formed The Reporters Quartet with his dad, and they studio recorded an acapella album. Jeff also received first place in musical composition for his age category with the Kiwanis Music Festival and began to learn how to play numerous other musical instruments.
Jeff has directed and performed in many musical/theatre productions while continuing to build his craft by studying for his Bachelor of Arts in Sacred Music at Prairie Bible College (2.5 of 4 years completed).
Over his musical career, Jeff has had the privilege of singing/playing piano on stage with many of the best in gospel music, with the likes of Greater Vision, The Talley Trio, Guy Penrod, Marshall Hall, The Martins, The Booth Brothers, The Watchmen Quartet, Steve Green, Mark Lowry, Valiant, and The Heading Home Trio, just to name a few. At the beginning of 2020, Jeff started composing/orchestrating music for music production libraries, beyond releasing some of his compositions to streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube. Please view www.youtube.com/jeffharden
Jeff also placed 3rd in a scoring competition created by Jon Meyer, a prominent YouTuber and Instrument Sampler connected to the PianoBook community.
To see the review please view https://youtu.be/LLIqpqVknKU?t=849
After years of singing, playing, and instructing other musicians and singers privately in Ontario, as well as extensively traveling across Canada as the Home Piano and Specialty Keyboards Product Specialist for Roland Canada for 3 years, Jeff now calls Smithers, BC home and is establishing his music teaching practice a after moving west.
DID YOU KNOW…
Jeff and Eva also own BV Apple Fritters. In 2016 we visited the Bulkley Valley for the first time to attend our niece's wedding. We immediately fell in love with Smithers and the surrounding area. We got to experience the vibrant downtown, discover the rich musical heritage, and taste the multiple cultures of cuisine. Upon arriving back to Ontario where we've lived our whole lives, and back to our stressful jobs as transit bus drivers, we agreed that someday... someday we would come back to the Bulkley Valley permanently, to fulfill our dreams, both musically and culinarilly.
In October of 2021, our entire family moved to Smithers. It wasn't too long before we made the decision to replicate a proven farmer's market food item that we had seen success in Ontario and were personal fans of. We purchased the necessary equipment for a temporary food vendor booth at the Bulkley Valley Farmers Market. We quickly became a market favorite by the Smithers community, a proud member of the Smithers Chamber of Commerce, and started to get multiple invitations to local events, festivals, private business parties, and gala's.
We continue to see amazing opportunities in this community to expand our services to the Bulkley Valley.